Latest Contributions by StevenGraf1

So when the page loads you want it hidden.  Then a user clicks a button and the map appears in the page?  Is this the functionality you need?  You can hide a div like this.  And then you can use a toggle button to show/hide the div like this. ... View more

Without the rest of your div and style elements, it's hard to see what's actually going on. I would create a div and make it the size that you want and then with the mapoverview inside it as such: <div style="width:290px; height:205px; overflow:hidden;">      <div id="overviewMap"></div> </div> This will create a div with the pixel size and the map will insert at 100% inside that div.  The way you have it above should work the same but browsers are inconsistent some times. Steven ... View more

Do you have the LGIM xml document?  That is what you need to open, not the LGIM itself.  I understand you frustration.  Anyways, here is the link to the resource center for the LGIM.  In one of the folders you will find the data dictionary. Here is the direct link to the data dictionary. Steven ... View more

I would install X-Ray for ArcCatalog extension.  This way you can open the XML document and view the data dictionary any time you need.  ... View more

Another option more along the lines of Dan's response would be to create a model that iterates over a unique value in your polyline layer which then converts each polyline into a polygon.  Each polygon would be in it's own feature class and then you could merge them together. ... View more

I have never tried ET_GeoWizards tools.  There are several free tools in the toolbar and Polyline to Polygon looks to be one of them.  It may be worth a shot. Steven ... View more

Thanks for the information. Steven ... View more

How bad does it hurt performance?  I'm thinking about this from an enterprise geodatabase.  I put all my data inside feature datasets because its easier to manage permissions for 1 feature dataset rather than 50 feature classes.  Maybe this is a topic for another discussion.  Is their a best practice document out there for this? Thanks, Steven ... View more

If you have a bunch of related shapefiles, you could group them together inside a geodatabase using feature datasets.  This way you can better organize your data while storing everything inside 1 geodatabase Steven ... View more

You can get a 60 day free trial here.  It comes with all the extensions.  If she is in college, she may want to ask her professors if they can provide her with an educational license.  Steven ... View more

I assume they do because they have the ability to share maps across your organization. ... View more